Mille Fleurs Inc. v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 MILLE FLEURS, a Corporation; and CASE NO. 21cv1096-LAB-AGS 11 MISTER BERTRAND LLC dba BERTRAND AT MISTER A’S, ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO DISMISS [Dkt. 7] Plaintiffs, vs. NATIONWIDE MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY, a 16 Corporation; and DOES 1 through 25, Defendants. On March 11, 2020, The World Health Organization declared that the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 had spread widely enough that it could be called a pandemic. Within eight days, the City of San Diego, San Diego County, and the State of California issued orders requiring all individuals in those jurisdictions to stay at home except as necessary to engage in essential activities. Patronizing bars and restaurants wasn’t considered an essential activity, and over the course of the pandemic, further orders placed varying levels of restriction on those establishments. Those orders severely affected the business of Mille Fleurs and Bertrand 1 …